Recent Publications

Pre-prints

Vazquez, K., & Parsons, R. G. (2024). Sex differences in contextual fear expression are associated with altered medial prefrontal cortex activity. bioRxiv. doi:10.1101/2024.09.07.611834

Publications

Anderson, Z., & Parsons, R. G. (2026). The influence of context pre-exposure and shock number on contextual fear conditioning in male and female rats. Behavioural brain research, 496, 115856.

Vazquez, K., Cole, K. E., & Parsons, R. G. (2024). Sex and the facilitation of cued fear by prior contextual fear conditioning in rats. Learning & memory, 31(9).

Cole, K.E., and Parsons, R.G. (2023). Sex difference in the facilitation of fear learning by prior fear conditioning. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory 205, 107835.

Russo, A. S., & Parsons, R. G. (2022). Neural activity in afferent projections to the infralimbic cortex is associated with individual differences in the recall of fear extinction. Sci Rep, 12(1), 13703.

Russo, A. S., & Parsons, R. G. (2021). Behavioral Expression of Contextual Fear in Male and Female Rats. Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience, 15, 671017.

Cole, K. E., Lee, J., Davis, M., & Parsons, R. G. (2019). Subthreshold Fear Conditioning Produces a Rapidly Developing Neural Mechanism that Primes Subsequent Learning. eNeuro, 6(3). doi:10.1523/ENEURO.0113-19.2019

Voulo, M.E., and Parsons, R.G. (2019). Gonadal hormone fluctuations do not affect the expression or extinction of fear potentiated startle in female rats. Behavioral Neuroscience, doi:10.1037/bne0000324

Russo, A.S., Lee, J., and Parsons, R.G. (2019). Individual variability in the recall of fear extinction is associated with phosphorylation of mitogen-activated protein kinase in the infralimbic cortex. Psychopharmacology (Berl).

Lee, J., Russo, A.S., Parsons, R.G. (2018). Facilitation of fear learning by prior and subsequent fear conditioning. Behavioural Brain Research, 347, 61-68.

Parsons, R.G. (2018). Behavioral and neural mechanisms by which prior experience impacts subsequent learning. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 154, 22-29.

Voulo, M.E., and Parsons, R.G. (2017). Response-specific sex difference in the retention of fear extinction. Learning and Memory, 24, 245 –251.

Russo, A.R., and Parsons, R.G. (2017). Acoustic startle response in rats predicts inter-individual variation in fear extinction. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 139, 157-164